Trump’s presidency is about how he experienced Obama’s presidency, about how it perpetually preoccupied and consumed his thoughts like a Zahir. And so we have a presidency that reflects Trump’s madness and not the common form of a presidency, which combines periods of absence with those of presence.

“I find that the number of visits from even a lightly trafficked blog is markedly higher than many Facebook likes and Twitter retweets combined.” Also, John Mayer calls Tumblr the future of intelligent discourse.